US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for providing location services for a welding power supply" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,963, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for providing location services for a welding power supply" was invented by Marc Lee Denis (Lena, Wis.) and Christopher Hsu (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include wireless control of a welding power supply via portable electronic devices, such as dedicated original equipment manufacturer (OEM) welding remote devices, cellular radio telephones, satellite radio telephones, laptops computers, tablet computers, and so forth. In particular, operating parameters and statuses of the welding pow...